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From: Mario Fetka <mario-fetka@×××.at>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Removing .la files...
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:28:58
Message-Id: 200806191628.52097.mario-fetka@gmx.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Removing .la files... by "Olivier Crête"
1 Am Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2008 16:22:19 schrieb Olivier Crête:
2 > On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 14:08 +0200, Rémi Cardona wrote:
3 > > > Why only plugins? What's to stop an application from loading a
4 > > > "normal" library using libtool's dlopen wrapper (perhaps so it can fail
5 > > > gracefully if the library is missing, for example)?
6 > >
7 > > Nothing per se, but I have yet to see any FOSS application dlopen() gtk+
8 > > or libpng.
9 >
10 > FOSS is the keyword here... the flash plugin dlopens a bunch of stuff
11
12 also kde-3.5 is using libtools dlopen for plugins

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